Year I visited the Florence Nightingale Museum in St Thomas Hospital today. We were surprised to find that our tour guide was Florence Nightingale herself She told us about her early life, her family. her time in the Crimean War in 1854 and her life’s work modernising nursing.

The museum had lots of her personal belongings which we got to explore, including her medicine chest, clothes, her famous lamp and her lunch box – we even got to meet her pet owl, Athena!